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		<title>Russell Brand &#8212;- Wrong Again</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Russell Brand, Hollywood&#8217;s favorite socialist, recently took to YouTube to deny the relevance of Islam to the Oct. 22, 2014 terrorist attack in Ottawa, Canada. See Steven Crowder&#8217;s thorough rebuttal below:</span></strong></p>
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		<title>The British Royal Family and the Islamist Terrorists</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are British Royals committed to defending the homeland? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/prince-charles.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245325" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/prince-charles.jpg" alt="prince-charles" width="338" height="278" /></a>Four men aged 19-27 were arrested by British police on Thursday, November 6<sup>th</sup>, for allegedly planning a terror attack in London against Queen Elizabeth during the Remembrance Day ceremony that took place on Friday, November 7th.</p>
<p style="color: #323333;">The terrorists were seized by the police following months of surveillance and police were said to be interrogating the suspects – who are thought to have hatched a plot to assassinate the Queen with a knife.</p>
<p style="color: #323333;">England, of course, under Prime Minister Cameron is a leader in tolerance and respect for Islam and even allows Sharia Law-governed “no-go” areas. After the ISIS beheading of British citizen David Haines, Cameron was quoted as feeling the need once again, just as after every terrorist murder, to emphasize that such terrorism was not done by the “religion of peace”:  <span style="color: #101010;">&#8220;They are killing and slaughtering thousands of people… they boast of their brutality… they claim to do this in the name of Islam, that is nonsense, Islam is a religion of peace. They are not Muslims, they are monsters.&#8221;</span></p>
<p style="color: #101010;">In my book, <i>Tolerism: The Ideology Revealed </i>(Mantua Books, second edition), I discuss how the endless tolerance of the intolerant illiberals endangers us all if these intolerants take power and end all tolerance.  Britain has quite an ambivalent relationship with Islam and especially those who commit violence, or otherwise attack British historic liberties and freedoms, for the purpose of conquest and a jihadist caliphate.</p>
<p><span style="color: #101010;">Britain, of course, had its own version of 9/11, t</span>he July 7, 2005 London bombings (often referred to as 7/7)  which were a series of coordinated <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_attack"><span style="color: #0433ff;">suicide attacks</span></a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_London"><span style="color: #0433ff;">central London</span></a>, which targeted civilians using the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_in_London"><span style="color: #0433ff;">public transport system</span></a> during the morning rush hour.</p>
<p>As well as the four bombers, 52 civilians were killed and over 700 more were injured.</p>
<p>So, when threats were discovered against the Queen, British police and armed forces took the matter seriously and thwarted the proposed attack.    It all brought to mind, however, just how the British have related to radical or militant Islam, or Islamism, however you term it.</p>
<p>In view of the recent thwarted attempt against the Queen, perhaps, we should take a look at the views of Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne. Is there anything that should concern us?    Has he become what I call a “tolerist” – one whose tolerance of evil seems to have been exacerbated by terrorism; that is, do we have another case where we see terrorism being successful in creating <i>more </i>tolerance and more submission to the demands of radical Muslims both inside and outside Britain, with every terrorist attack?</p>
<p>The royal wedding between Prince William and the beautiful Kate Middleton on April 29<sup>th</sup>, 2011, seemed, to many, a turning back in time to when the British monarchy really mattered, and Britain itself mattered.   The Queen herself, resolute in her dedication to duty and country, with a mother who had lived to 101, seemed to be ready to carry on for years to come.</p>
<p>The striking young couple and the 85 year old monarch, brought the monarchy into a perhaps unexpected place of honour and excitement in a Britain, beset by economic problems and social tensions relating to its increasing Islamic population. The very popularity of the young couple and the elderly monarch made the public’s disdain of William’s father and Elizabeth’s son, Charles, all the more apparent. It prompted me to research a bit about Prince Charles and his views.</p>
<p>Charles was the one who was mostly famous for ditching the popular and beautiful Diana for the plain and somewhat unappealing Camilla. An eccentric, seemingly in search of a cause in life, his interest in architecture and the environment was about to come into fashion again, when he made the turn in his career which seems somewhat puzzling:  his interest in promoting the cause of Islam.</p>
<p>In this, he might be seen by his critics as taking after no one so much as his eccentric uncle Edward, the Nazi sympathizer who abdicated the throne to marry the divorced American Wallace Simpson.</p>
<p>In both cases, it did not help that the public was not at all enthralled with the choice of woman.   Neither did the uncle or the nephew appear to be a strong and ideal candidate to lead the British  people (even though the monarchy’s power is symbolic only) in a time of crisis in world affairs – with the Nazis in Edward’s time, and with Radical Islam, terrorism, and attempts to create a new caliphate to include Europe, in Charles’ time.</p>
<p>Charles seemed to latch onto the defence of Islam as his pet project and his standing in the Islamic world increased accordingly, at least until Islamist demands, as they do invariably, start to increase with every step of tolerance.</p>
<p>By the time of William’s engagement, polling showed an overwhelming majority of the British public believed Prince Charles should make way for his eldest son and allow him to be the next king.</p>
<p>The story of Charles’ infatuation with Islam was not followed closely by the press, but here are the basics:</p>
<p>The grand mufti of Cyprus has said: &#8220;Did you know that Prince Charles has converted to Islam. Yes, yes. He is a Muslim. I can&#8217;t say more. But it happened in Turkey. Oh, yes, he converted all right. When you get home check on how often he travels to Turkey. You&#8217;ll find that your future king is a Muslim.”</p>
<p>Assuming that Charles remained a member of the Church of England, however, he made many worrying statements that seemed to go above and beyond wishes for peaceful relations:</p>
<p>1. Charles made several strong public statements endorsing Islam as the solution to the spiritual and cultural ills of Britain and the West. In 1989, when Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against Salman Rushdie, a British citizen, for blaspheming the Prophet Muhammad in his novel <i>The Satanic Verses. </i>Charles did not defend Rushdie&#8217;s freedom of speech, but reacted to the death decree by reflecting on the positive features that Islam has to offer the spiritually empty lives of his countrymen.</p>
<p>2. Similarly, in the matter of the riots after the publication of cartoons about Mohammed, Prince Charles again took the Muslim side:   The Times of London reported that in front of an audience of more than 800 Islamic scholars at Cairo&#8217;s Al-Azhar University, Charles made a &#8220;serious, impassioned 30-minute speech&#8221; that &#8220;The recent ghastly strife and anger over the Danish cartoons shows the danger that comes of our failure to listen and to respect what is precious and sacred to others. In my view, the true mark of a civilised society is the respect it pays to minorities and to strangers.&#8221;   He of course made no comments on how minorities are treated in Muslim countries.</p>
<p>3. Back in March 2000, Prince Charles visited the <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/743894.stm"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Islamia Primary School</span></a> in North-West London. This, Britain&#8217;s first state-funded Muslim school, was founded and is headed by Yusuf Islam (a.k.a. Cat Stevens), an Islamist who threatened Salman Rushdie&#8217;s life during the <i>Satanic Verses</i> controversy and has since been banned from entering the United States. The Prince told the children: &#8220;You are ambassadors for a sometimes much misunderstood faith. I believe that Islam has much to teach increasingly secular societies like ours in Britain.</p>
<p>4. The idea that Christians and Jews must learn from Islam became a recurring theme from Charles:   “Islam can teach us today a way of understanding and living in the world which Christianity itself is poorer for having lost. At the heart of Islam is its preservation of an integral view of the Universe. Islam-like Buddhism and Hinduism refuses to separate man and nature, religion and science, mind and matter, and has preserved a metaphysical and unified view of ourselves and the world around us. . . . But the West gradually lost this integrated vision of the world with Copernicus and Descartes and the coming of the scientific revolution. A comprehensive philosophy of nature is no longer part of our everyday beliefs.”</p>
<p>5. In a speech at the Foreign Office Conference Centre at Wilton Park in Sussex on December 13, 1996, he called on Islamic pedagogy and philosophy to help young Britons develop a healthier view of the world.   Praising Islamic culture in its traditional form for trying to preserve an &#8220;integrated, spiritual view of the world in a way we have not seen fit to do in recent generations in the West,&#8221; he went on to say:  “There is much we can learn from that Islamic world view in this respect. There are many ways in which mutual understanding and appreciation can be built. Perhaps, for instance, we could begin by having more Muslim teachers in British schools, or by encouraging exchanges of teachers. Everywhere in the world people want to learn English. But in the West, in turn, we need to be taught by Islamic teachers how to learn with our hearts, as well as our heads. The results of this study will help Westerners to rethink, and for the better, our practical stewardship of man and his environment-in fields such as health-care, the natural environment and agriculture, as well as in architecture and urban planning.”</p>
<p>6. As noted by Gordon and Stillman, “Prince Charles of Arabia”, <i>The</i> <i>Middle East Quarterly, </i>September, 1997, Charles took steps to give Islam a special status. He set up a panel of twelve &#8220;wise men&#8221; (in fact, eleven men and one woman) to advise him on Islamic religion and culture.  This caused much talk, especially as the group was reported to have met in secret. Some noted that no comparable body exists to inform the crown prince about other faiths practiced in his future realm.</p>
<p>7. To Charles, it was Islam that can best implement his cherished environmentalism: In an hour-long speech on &#8220;<a href="http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/news/latest-news/?view=News&amp;id=22350511"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Islam and the Environment</span></a>&#8221; at Oxford University&#8217;s Sheldonian Theatre on behalf of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, reported Rebecca English of the<i> Daily Mail</i>, &#8220;the heir to the throne argued that man&#8217;s destruction of the world was contrary to the scriptures of all religions &#8211; but particularly those of Islam.&#8221; He &#8220;spoke in depth about his own study of the Koran which, he said, tells its followers that there is &#8216;no separation between man and nature&#8217; and says we must always live within our environment&#8217;s limits.&#8221; He also said:  “The inconvenient truth is that we share this planet with the rest of creation for a very good reason &#8211; and that is, we cannot exist on our own without the intricately balanced web of life around us. Islam has always taught this and to ignore that lesson is to default on our contract with creation.”  He did not comment on the environmental aspects of Islamic harvesting of its vast oil wealth, nor the environmental aspects of suicide bombing and other violent acts of Islam as it implemented Jihad at its every border.</p>
<p>8. In 2007, after watching ten whirling dervishes perform at a cultural centre in Turkey, Charles stated:  &#8220;Whatever it is, it seems to me that Western life has become deconstructed and partial.&#8221; The East, on the other hand, he went on, had given us &#8220;parables of the soul.&#8221; He also cited the Koran and Hadith.</p>
<p>9. Among the many titles borne by the British sovereign is &#8220;Defender of the Faith,&#8221; a reference to the fact that the monarch heads not only the government but also the Church of England. But the prince had reservations about this title. In a June 1994 television documentary he declared his preference to be known as &#8220;Defender of Faith&#8221; rather than &#8220;Defender of the Faith,&#8221; which prompted then Prime Minister John Major to quip, “it would be a little odd if Prince Charles was defender of faiths of which he was not a member.’</p>
<p>10. We note that in 2004, the Sultan of Brunei awarded Charles a $50,000 prize chosen by an international jury set up by the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies for his contribution to understanding Islam in the West, being the first non-Muslim to receive the prize.  Some years earlier, at a private dinner with prince Charles in May 1997, Prince Bandar bin Sultan of Saudi Arabia announced a donation by King Fahd of $33 million to Oxford University to construct a new Centre for Islamic Studies at Oxford, a gift designed &#8220;to establish Islamic studies at the heart of the British education system.&#8221;</p>
<p>11. Finally, it appeared that Charles made dozens of trips to Muslim countries (Turkey being a special favourite), but when invited to visit Israel (no member of the Royal Family has made an Official Visit to Israel), Charles’ advisors were quoted in a 2007 story in Israel’s <i>Ha’aretz </i>newspaper as saying that there was &#8220;no chance&#8221; the prince would ever visit Israel &#8211; so as not to boost Israel&#8217;s international image.  One famous trip of Charles was the eight day tour of the U.S. in 2005 where he tried to persuade George W Bush and Americans of the merits of Islam because he thought that the United States had been too intolerant of the religion since September 11. The Prince voiced private concerns over America&#8217;s &#8220;confrontational&#8221; approach to Muslim countries and its failure to appreciate Islam&#8217;s strengths.</p>
<p>However, Charles&#8217; efforts to promote Islam did not do his mother any good in Al-Qaeda&#8217;s eyes. The organization&#8217;s number two, <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1869849,00.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Ayman al- Zawahiri</span></a>, called Queen Elizabeth II &#8220;one of the severest enemies of Islam&#8221; and blamed her for what he called Britain&#8217;s &#8220;crusader laws.&#8221; In addition, he criticized British Muslims who &#8220;work for the pleasure of Elizabeth, the head of the Church of England&#8221; and ridiculed them for saying (his words, not theirs): &#8220;We are British citizens, subject to Britain&#8217;s crusader laws, and we are proud of our submission . . . to Elizabeth, head of the Church of England.&#8221;   Such was the attitude towards a woman Ruler who failed to “submit” to Islam, in contrast to her son who knew how to plead Islam’s case.</p>
<p>Moreover, there was an earlier plot to assassinate his mother, the Queen.   In 2007, Al-Qaeda plotted to kill the Queen during her state visit to Uganda.  Security services foiled the plot, which involved hiding inside two vans belonging to the Ugandan Broadcasting Corporation and setting off bombs, as the Queen came to Kampala on an official visit in November.</p>
<p>Lately, the world has been stunned by the violence and murder and torture of religious minorities by the brutal Islamists of ISIS – beheadings, rapes, mass killings.   And it has finally dawned upon people that Christians, as well as Yzedis, Kurds and Jews, are being targeted by Islamists.</p>
<p>And so, Prince Charles woke up: After the release of a new report which concludes that Christians are the “most persecuted religious minority” in the world and that Muslim countries dominate the list of places where religious freedom is most under threat, Prince Charles was forced to speak out.</p>
<p>Muslim leaders have a duty to warn their own followers about the “indescribable tragedy” of the <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/11027065/Video-shows-scale-of-Yazidi-suffering-on-Iraqs-Mount-Sinjar.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">persecution of Christians in the Middle East</span></a> and around the world, the Prince of Wales has insisted.</p>
<p>He said that faith leaders must ensure their followers respect believers in other faiths “rather than remaining silent.” But again Charles espoused a supposed role of Defender of (all) Faith(s), rather than the monarchy’s historic role as Defender of the (Christian) Faith.</p>
<p>While emphasizing the importance of his own personal Christian faith, he also signalled that he saw his role as to “defend” followers of other faiths including Islam.</p>
<p>Britain’s “future as a free society” depends on recognizing the “crucial role” played by people of faith, he said.  “First and foremost, rather than remaining silent, faith leaders have, it seems to me, a responsibility to ensure that people within their own tradition respect people from other faith traditions.</p>
<p>Prince Charles is to be praised for noting that:  “Sadly, in many other countries, an absence of freedom to determine one’s own faith is woven into the laws and customs of the nation.”</p>
<p>But even this modest criticism of Islam, in the context of a speech emphasizing that he sees himself as a Defender of all religions, including Islam, was too much for some British Muslim leaders:   Mohammed Shafiq, chief executive of the Ramadhan Foundation, said: &#8220;Prince Charles is somebody who is deeply respected in the Muslim community and he is absolutely right about Christians being oppressed &#8211; but the point is when innocent Iraqis were being killed by British bombs Prince Charles was quiet silent.</p>
<p>&#8220;I would like him to have spoken about Muslims being oppressed in a stronger way.&#8221;</p>
<p>And so in the context of the increasing number and influence of Muslims in Britain, we must scrutinize the words of the man next in line for the throne. And we note, that after showing such extreme tolerance, and much advocacy for Islam, Prince Charles is still criticized for making comments about ISIS and the murder of Christians.</p>
<p>For those of us in Britain (or myself in Canada, a member of the British commonwealth), it is apparent that the Queen remains a target for Islamist terrorists even as her son, the heir apparent, leans over backwards to compliment the religion of Islam and seeks to “Defend” it as well as the Monarchy’s (Church of England) Christianity. Whether his actions are naïve and foolish “tolerism” or an example of moderation and peaceful dialogue, only time will tell.</p>
<p><b><i>Howard Rotberg</i></b><i> is a Canadian writer with a special interest in ideologies, values, and cultures.   His latest book is </i>Tolerism:  The Ideology Revealed (Second Revised Edition, 2013).  <i>He is founding president of publishing company Mantua Books.</i></p>
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		<title>Terror in Canada</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/michael-zehalf-bibeau.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243648" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/michael-zehalf-bibeau-359x350.jpg" alt="michael-zehalf-bibeau" width="300" height="292" /></a>The nation of Canada is reeling today from a brutal terrorist attack in the capital city of Ottawa that claimed the life of Canadian reservist Nathan Cirillo. The attacker has been identified as Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/10/ottawa-gunman-is-convert-to-islam">a 32-year-old convert to Islam</a>, who was killed by authorities as he opened fire inside the Canadian Parliament. The incident comes just two days after two Canadian soldiers were deliberately struck by a speeding vehicle driven by another Islamic convert, leaving one soldier dead. The twin attacks have demonstrated that even the unassuming nation of Canada is not immune to the threat of Islamic terrorism, which once again has been allowed to flourish under a lax regime of global leadership.</p>
<p>Shortly before 10 a.m. Wednesday morning, Zehaf-Bibeau, using a keffiyeh to cover his face and brandishing a long-barreled rifle, approached the Canadian National War Memorial, dedicated to the memory of Canadian soldiers who have lost their lives in defense of their country. Clp. Cirillo was standing watch at the Tomb of the Unknown solider when he was shot in the abdomen by Zehaf-Bibeau at point-blank range. Zehaf-Bibeau then ran into the Canadian Parliament, where he was killed following a shoot-out with authorities.</p>
<p>Cpl. Cirillo, a 24-year-old father, was rushed to the hospital, but tragically succumbed to his injuries. A parliamentary guard sustained a gunshot wound to the leg during the attack and is said to be recovering.</p>
<p>Warning signs for Canadians have abounded in recent weeks. In early October, reports broke that an ISIS-connected <a href="http://globalnews.ca/news/1605467/rcmp-investigating-suspected-extremists-returning-from-wars-overseas/">terrorist plot</a>, allegedly targeting a shopping mall and the U.S. embassy in Ottawa, had been thwarted by authorities. A day before the public learned of the attack, Canadian <a href="http://www.torontosun.com/2014/10/22/canada-under-attack-by-homegrown-terrorists">intelligence and security agencies briefed</a> Canadian lawmakers on the threat of Islamic radicalism growing inside the country. However, while officials ultimately downplayed the idea that an attack was imminent, less than a week ago the government quietly raised the domestic terrorism threat level to medium for the first time in four years.</p>
<p>“This week’s events are a grim reminder that Canada is not immune to the types of terrorist attacks we have seen elsewhere around the world,” a visibly shaken Prime Minster Stephen Harper <a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/10/22/stephen_harper_vows_to_tighten_security_measures.html">said</a> in a statement to the nation Wednesday. Harper vowed that the attack would lead Canada to “strengthen our resolve and redouble our efforts, and those of our national security agencies, to take all necessary steps to identify and counter threats and keep Canada safe here at home.”</p>
<p>Worried Canadians should not be heartened by Harper’s pronouncements given what we have learned about officals&#8217; alleged monitoring of Zehaf-Bibeau and other like-minded terrorists embedded in Canadian society. Zehaf-Bibeau, born Michael Joseph Hall, had been known to Canadian authorities for his jihadist proclivities and potential for violence. He had recently been designated by the government as a<a href="http://www.torontosun.com/2014/10/22/canada-under-attack-by-homegrown-terrorists"> &#8220;high-risk traveler”</a> and had his passport seized out of fear that he was liable to commit acts of terrorism abroad. Despite a long criminal history of drug trafficking, credit-card forgery, robbery, and multiple stints in <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/22/world/canada-shooter/index.html">jail</a>, Zehaf-Bibeau could not be taken off the streets.</p>
<p>The disconcerting facts surrounding Zehaf-Bibeau are eerily similar to those of Martin Couture-Rouleau, a.k.a. “Ahmad LeConverti&#8221; (Ahmad the Converted), the Canadian Muslim convert who ran a car into two Canadian soldiers on Monday in the Quebec city of Saint-Jean-Sur-Richelieu, claiming the life of one of the victims. Couture-Rouleau was arrested and questioned in July when he attempted to fly out of Canada to Turkey. Couture-Rouleau’s passport had also been seized in an attempt to prevent him from traveling abroad and taking up arms with fellow Islamic terrorists.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/22/us-canada-attacks-suspect-idUSKCN0IB2IX20141022">Ninety</a> other individuals like Zehaf-Bibeau and Couture-Rouleau are reportedly on a Royal Canadian Mounted Police watch list due to suspicion that they have or are planning to participate in militant activities abroad. At least 80 individuals present in the country are believed by Canadian intelligence to have gone overseas to participate in terrorist activities, and as many as <a href="http://www.torontosun.com/2014/10/08/csis-keeping-watch-on-80-canadian-terror-suspects-nationwide">145 Canadians</a> around the world are said by intelligence to be actively involved in terrorist groups.</p>
<p>The same is true for many Western countries. Approximately <a href="http://nypost.com/2014/09/22/americans-who-joined-isis-now-back-in-the-us/">100 individuals</a> from the U.S. are believed by the National Counterterrorism Center to have attempted to leave the country to fight alongside ISIS jihadists. The FBI estimates that a <a href="http://www.christianpost.com/news/fbi-director-americans-that-joined-isis-in-syria-are-entitled-to-return-to-us-127683/">dozen Americans</a> are currently fighting in Iraq and Syria, while Rep. Tim Bishop (D-NY) reports that that some 40 U.S. citizens have been allowed re-entry into the country after fighting with ISIS. According to the Obama administration, this is their right.</p>
<p>“Ultimately, an American citizen, unless their passport is revoked, is entitled to come back,” FBI Director <a href="http://www.christianpost.com/news/fbi-director-americans-that-joined-isis-in-syria-are-entitled-to-return-to-us-127683/">James Comey</a> declared earlier this month. “So, someone who&#8217;s fought with ISIL, with an American passport wants to come back, we will track them very carefully.”</p>
<p>Yet the events in Canada of the last several days have cast doubt on the reliability of the purported “careful tracking” strategy.</p>
<p>“If you want to go to Syria and Iraq, please go, but never come back,” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69-nah7rIOc&amp;feature=youtu.be">Geert Wilders</a> told FrontPage’s Jamie Glazov on this week&#8217;s episode of <em>The Glazov Gang</em>. In this prophetic warning against the policy of barring known ISIS jihadists from exiting Western countries, Wilders pinpointed why Canadian soldiers like Cpl. Cirillo needlessly, and tragically, lose their lives at the hand of jihad. By refusing to allow highly &#8220;motivated&#8221; jihadists to leave, Western governments have made, in Wilders&#8217; words, “our own streets, our own airports, our own train stations, our own malls, very dangerous places to be.”</p>
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		<title>Canadian Union Demands Time Off for Grieving &#8220;Spirit Friends&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2014 14:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>Won&#8217;t<a href="http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com/2014/09/canada-public-servants-want-paid-days.html"> someone think of the ghosts</a>? (via <a href="http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com/">Blazing Cat Fur</a>)</p>
<blockquote><p>The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) wants its members to be able to take paid grieving days for “aboriginal spirit friends.”</p>
<p>The Educational and Library Science group of the public servant union did not offer an explanation or definition of “aboriginal spirit friend,” but wants the term added to the list of family members workers can take days off to mourn.</p>
<p>Gilles Benoit of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples, said he’s never heard the term before.</p></blockquote>
<p>Maybe they&#8217;re the spirit friends of white people who like to wear fake native jewelery? Maybe they&#8217;re Quakers? Or maybe they&#8217;re just making up fake holidays at this point.</p>
<p>But that&#8217;s not<a href="http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/65937"> the spookiest PSAC demand</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Other union demands: adding January 2nd, February 16th, May 1st to existing 10 paid statutory holidays</p>
<p>Four weeks paid vacation for new hires – up from three, five weeks paid vacation after eight years on the job</p>
<p>Destruction of negative employee performance reviews after one year</p></blockquote>
<p>Maybe it would just be easier to hire their imaginary spirit friends?</p>
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		<title>Hypocrite Warren Buffett Uses Canada as a Tax Shelter</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2014 04:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ronn Torossian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taking advantage of tax loopholes while promoting tax hikes on those beneath him. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/warren-buffett.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-240047" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/warren-buffett-446x350.jpg" alt="BUFFETT CREDIT" width="279" height="219" /></a>Warren Buffett, you may be the world’s greatest investor.  Clearly, you are a brilliant, successful man.  However, you are also a major hypocrite.</p>
<p>I am the grandson of Holocaust survivors, raised by a single-mother, a graduate of the New York City public schools. I founded a company out of a tiny office – and through many hours of hard work today employ over 110 people and own one of the largest independently owned <a href="http://www.5wpr.com/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">US PR firms</span></a>.  As a NYC resident, I pay over 50% taxes – 35% federal, 8.25 percent New York State taxes, and 4 percent local taxes. Add in Medicare, social security, payroll, workers compensation, commercial rent taxes, payroll tax, and who knows what other tax and it is more than 50 percent. I spend many, many hours with my accountant – and there is no way around these outrageous tax bills.</p>
<p>There is something so un-American in forcing me to hand over more than half a year’s pay to the government. Meanwhile, uber-rich like Buffet have a special way with the system, whereby, as he claims, he pays about 17 percent of his income to the government in taxes. Buffett makes most of his money from dividends and capital gains – at the 15 percent tax rate. For a simpleton like me it seems a deviation from the concept of all money being green.  And he has the gall to proclaim that the wealthy need to pay more taxes (which Obama defines as over $200k annually).</p>
<p>Headlines this week featured Buffett&#8217;s plans to provide financing for Burger King’s purchase of Canadian chain Tim Horton’s, which would allow Burger King to pay Canadian tax rates.  While it is wholly natural for capitalists to take advantage of loopholes to maximize profit, there is an issue when he does it with his foot on the neck of hard-working entrepreneurial Americans. It&#8217;s hypocritical to weasel out of American taxes.</p>
<p>Tax codes are broken when Buffett’s $46 billion net worth will largely escape all federal taxation. Some years ago, the billionaire signed a letter, calling for a “strong estate tax” because it is “right morally and economically” and “promotes democracy by slowing the concentration of wealth and power.” He uses tax laws to dodge taxes – yet, my heirs will pay another 50% taxes after my death on monies which have already been taxed. Even if I was to move overseas, and give up my American citizenship, I’d have to pay “exit fees” in taxes.  In the same breath, <span style="color: #151515;">multi-billion-dollar corporations are able to evade the law.  <i>Rather warped.</i> </span></p>
<p>I live in a city where there is a city council that is openly anti-business, a “progressive” mayor (and governor), and our 2014 State Business Tax Climate Index placed <a href="http://observer.com/author/ronn-torossian/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">New York</span></a> 50th (out of 50 States) as a result of high income, corporate, sales, and property taxes. And we should pay more while Mr. Buffett weasels his way into Canada?</p>
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		<title>Burger King Flees US Taxes by Moving to Canada</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2014 19:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>Under Obama, the United States is turning into California and p<a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/burger-king-in-talks-to-buy-tim-hortons-1408924294?tesla=y&amp;mg=reno64-wsj&amp;url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204707304580112383507234208.html">lenty of American companies </a>are doing what California companies have been doing.</p>
<p><a href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/08/24/burger-king-in-talks-to-buy-tim-hortons/">They&#8217;re headed for the exit</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Burger King may be the home of the Whopper, but Canada may be the new home of Burger King.</p>
<p>If completed, the deal would mean Burger King’s corporate headquarters would move to Canada, raising the specter of yet another American company switching its national citizenship to lower its tax bill.</p>
<p>Inversions have become increasingly popular, though the practice has come under fire from Washington as the Obama administration and lawmakers have complained that companies that do so are unfairly — though legally — cutting their tax bills. The practice gained new prominence when Pfizer, one of the biggest names in corporate America, pursued a takeover of AstraZeneca in an effort to find a lower tax rate in Britain.</p>
<p>The American corporate tax rate is about 35 percent, while Canada’s is about 15 percent. But people briefed on the deal negotiations said that the main driver in the talks was not taxes. Burger King already pays a tax rate of roughly 27 percent, and would shave off only a couple of percentage points by moving to Canada, according to the people briefed on the matter.</p></blockquote>
<p>Even in taxes were the issue (and a few percentage points for an $18 billion company still amounts to a sizable sum. A very sizable sum.) Burger King won&#8217;t announce it out loud. Why irritate American consumers or Washington.</p>
<p>No company likes to look greedy, but the idea that such a move will have nothing to do with the tax advantages is simply denial.</p>
<blockquote><p>
One potential reason for the move may be to placate Canadian authorities. Deals in the country are governed by the Investment Canada Act, which allows the national government to block a merger if it is deemed to not be in the best interests of the country.</p></blockquote>
<p>This is why I&#8217;m a protectionist. Every other country is. It&#8217;s not like there&#8217;s some imaginary open environment out there. China and Japan cleaned out clock largely thanks to protectionism. But protectionism doesn&#8217;t work if you don&#8217;t have an attractive business environment.</p>
<blockquote><p>The White House called on Congress to take steps to prevent companies from pursuing inversions. The Treasury Department recently said it is assembling a list of options to deter or prevent the deals for Secretary Jacob Lew to consider.</p></blockquote>
<p>They can do that in the hopes of making the current economic disaster look a little better, but building an iron curtain around America isn&#8217;t the answer to anything. There will always be ways around it and it creates disincentives for new businesses.</p>
<p>Instead of competing for their business, we&#8217;ll be warning the companies that we still have left not to leave. That&#8217;s exactly the kind of scenario likely to move companies faster out the door.</p>
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		<title>Justin Trudeau and His Friends at the Terror Mosque</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2014 04:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is Canada’s would-be next Prime Minister soft on jihad terror?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/jt.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-238346" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/jt-450x337.jpg" alt="jt" width="219" height="164" /></a>Justin Trudeau, the leader of the Liberal Party and the most widely touted name to be the next Prime Minister of Canada, is at the center of a controversy this week for a 2011 visit to the Al-Sunnah Al-Nabawiah mosque in Montreal, which was <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/justin-trudeau-s-2011-mosque-visit-draws-fire-from-steven-blaney-1.2729098">identified by U.S. intelligence officials</a> as a site where “known al-Qaeda members were recruited, facilitated or trained.”</p>
<p>Steven Blaney, Canada’s minister of public safety and emergency preparedness, <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/justin-trudeau-s-2011-mosque-visit-draws-fire-from-steven-blaney-1.2729098">declared</a>: “It is completely unacceptable that Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau would associate with a group that allegedly radicalizes Canadians to join al-Qaeda and engage in acts of unspeakable violent extremism. Now he is pandering for votes amongst religious extremists in our own communities. It is clear that Justin Trudeau cannot be trusted to keep Canadians safe.”</p>
<p>Trudeau <a href="http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/politics/archives/2014/08/20140805-194607.html">dismissed the controversy</a>: “I think I’ve probably been to every single different mosque in my riding. I know a number of people who have been listed by the U.S. government on a no-fly list and we in Canada have our own determinations for those sorts of things because the U.S. is known to make mistakes from time to time; are there any other questions?”</p>
<p>Canada’s Leftist media establishment hit back hard. Jonathan Kay, who for years has been trying to efface all signs of his previous opposition to jihad terror, <a href="http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/08/06/jonathan-kay-sun-news-cynical-attacks-on-justin-trudeau-have-crossed-the-line-into-anti-muslim-hysteria/">sneered</a> in the National Post that the whole controversy had been cooked up by the conservative Sun TV network, “and since many Sun viewers already suspect that Trudeau was born in Kenya along with Barack Obama, its Muslim Menace programming presumably plays well to the network’s base.”</p>
<p>Then Kay pounced:</p>
<blockquote><p>In fact, the network botched the story: In the clip that Sun News had loaded on its web site as of 2pm on Thursday, the host <a href="http://www.ezralevant.com/trudeau-admits-to-visiting-extremist-mosque-with-ties-to-al-qaeda/">reads out</a> an old statement from the U.S. government, declaring that the mosque is among nine institutions where “known al-Qaeda members are recruited, facilitated or trained.” But the statement actually didn’t say “are.” It said “were.” (You can actually see the text in the printed version of the U.S. memo, which appears on the screen as the Sun host misquotes the key word.) As <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/u-s-lists-montreal-mosque-as-al-qaeda-recruiting-place-1.1124571">this CBC report from 2011</a> indicates, the reference relates to several jihadis who passed through Montreal in the late 1990s.</p></blockquote>
<p>Warren Kinsella piled on in the <a href="http://www.torontosun.com/2014/08/07/tory-attack-on-trudeau-mosque-visit-backfires">Toronto Sun</a>: “The Conservative kids in their dark suits are all ecstatic. After Trudeau visited the mosque – note that word, AFTER – a U.S. intelligence report came out and said that some men had passed through the mosque a decade earlier.”</p>
<p>The U.S. report came out after Trudeau visited the mosque! And it just involved information about “some men had passed through the mosque a decade earlier”! The title of Kinsella’s piece summed up the liberal response: “Tory attack on Trudeau mosque visit backfires.”</p>
<p>There was just one problem with this: it didn’t backfire, but actually raised important questions about Justin Trudeau’s awareness of the jihad threat, as well as his resolve to resist it. Sun News explained in <a href="http://www.torontosun.com/2014/08/08/hold-mosque-trudeau-to-account">an editorial</a> that the problem with the mosque didn’t just involve some people who “passed through,” but some who lingered. One was “an admitted member of al-Qaida, who swore bayat (oath of allegiance) to Osama bin Laden” and “was the imam at the mosque during the month of Ramadan one year.”</p>
<p>What’s more, even if the U.S. report came out after Trudeau visited the mosque, in July 2011, three months after Trudeau’s visit, the mosque’s website still featured this: “We hold that whoever claims that there is, besides Islam, a religion in existence today that is acceptable to Allah &#8211; whether it be the religion of the Jews, Christians or others &#8211; is an unbeliever (kaaﬁr). His repentance should be sought; if he refuses to repent, he is to be killed as an apostate (murtad) because of rejecting the Qur’an.”</p>
<p>Did the Al-Sunnah Al-Nabawiah Mosque suddenly become “extremist” in the immediate aftermath of Trudeau’s visit? Or did the heir presumptive, pandering for Muslim votes, carelessly visit a mosque without first making any effort to determine whether or not it taught hatred of Jews and Christians and such inconvenient Islamic doctrines as the death penalty for apostates?</p>
<p>It wouldn’t have been the first time Trudeau had angled for Muslim votes in ways that made it seem as if he was oblivious to the jihad threat. In <a href="http://www.winnipegsun.com/2013/08/19/fess-up-mr-dressup-shahada-reciting-trudeau-all-for-show-but-questions-still-should-have-been-asked">a mosque visit in 2013</a>, he donned a jalabiya and participated in a prayer that included the shahada, the Islamic profession of faith. <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/12/22/justin-trudeau-irfan-conference-appearance_n_2353752.html">In 2012</a>, he spoke at the Reviving the Islamic Spirit conference, despite the fact that one of its sponsors (until Trudeau’s appearance created so much controversy that it dropped out) was IRFAN-Canada, a group that was later banned for its ties to Hamas. <a href="http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2011/03/14/17610021.html">In 2011</a>, he criticized a Canadian government report for calling honor killings “barbaric.”</p>
<p>Stephen Lecce of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s office <a href="http://www.torontosun.com/2014/08/05/trudeau-lambasted-for-visiting-mosque-linked-to-al-qaida-recruitment">accused Trudeau</a> of “trolling for votes among religious extremists in our own communities,” and added: “First, Justin Trudeau refused to condemn the horrific bombing of the Boston Marathon — instead he tried to rationalize the actions of evil individuals. It’s clear that Justin Trudeau cannot be trusted to keep Canadians safe.”</p>
<p>In light of this track record, it seems abundantly clear that Justin Trudeau’s visit to the Al-Sunnah Al-Nabawiah Mosque was no aberration, and even if he had known of the mosque’s terror ties and Islamic supremacist views before his visit, it is not at all clear that he would have dropped his plans to visit.</p>
<p>If he becomes Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau is likely to be Canada’s Barack Obama: a leader who panders to Islamic supremacists, appeasing and accommodating them at every opportunity. Such are Western leaders these days – which is why the West is heading for disaster.</p>
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		<title>Canada: No Religious Liberty for Doctors</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why the future of freedom in Canada looks bleaker and bleaker.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/gg.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-236297" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/gg-450x290.jpg" alt="gg" width="338" height="218" /></a>Another attack on religious freedom is under way in Canada, this time against doctors in the province of Ontario. The <a href="http://www.cpso.on.ca/">College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario</a> is reviewing its <a href="http://www.cpso.on.ca/policies-publications/policy/physicians-and-the-ontario-human-rights-code">human rights code guidelines</a>, and the public response has been explosive. Many people want the College to change its present practice of permitting doctors to opt out of referring or prescribing treatments that violate their ethics or religious faith.</p>
<p>This is not a case of liberal intellectuals and unelected leaders reducing our freedoms without the consent of the public. Judging by the slew of negative comments to stories in the mainstream media, the public is on the side of clamping down on doctors. It’s disturbing to see that of the nearly 9000 votes submitted in the <a href="http://policyconsult.cpso.on.ca/?page_id=3403">College’s online poll</a>, around 67% said “no” to the question: “Do you think a physician should be allowed to refuse to provide a patient with a treatment or procedure because it conflicts with the physician’s religious or moral beliefs?”</p>
<p>Why are people so keen to end religious freedom for our doctors? The media has been harping on the case of 25-year-old Kate Desjardins, an Ottawa woman who was denied a birth control pill prescription at a walk-in clinic. The doctor she consulted, Edmond Kyrillos, happened to be a practicing Catholic who distributes a letter to all prospective patients, informing them that “because of reasons of my own medical judgment as well as professional ethical concerns and religious values, I only provide one form of birth control, Natural Family Planning.”</p>
<p>Canada’s free health care system ensures patients would never be dependent on a doctor like Kyrillos &#8211; any patient can walk into any Emergency Room or Public Health Clinic and receive the prescriptions or referrals they are seeking, and those who want abortions don’t even need a referral. Ms. Desjardins’ inconvenience was minor, since she lives in a major Canadian city and another walk-in clinic happened to be only several hundred meters away.  But Ms. Desjardins <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/02/06/birth-control-letter-ottawa_n_4735163.html">went public</a> with the letter and claimed embarrassment at having to go elsewhere for her prescription.</p>
<p>Another example that has been brought up in the media is the instance of remote rural locations where there might be only one doctor within the range of reasonable travel. But this problem is resolved under the existing policy, since doctors already have a duty to treat patients who lack access to alternate care. Catholic doctors who don’t want to prescribe contraception need to stay away from postings in the middle of the woods.</p>
<p>This debate is not really about health care at all. It’s actually about religious accommodation, and what’s becoming obvious is that our society is growing less tolerant of expressions of religious faith in professional life. Perhaps more specifically, we are getting increasingly annoyed with the Catholic views on contraception, and we don’t want them in our faces when we go to the doctor. I hesitate to use the term “witch hunt,” but it is starting to seem accurate in this case.</p>
<p>The Charter still protects freedom of religion as fundamental to our society, but few people these days seem to understand what freedom really means. If the public can become convinced that they are still free when they can only think but can’t act on their most fundamental beliefs, then the future of freedom in Canada looks bleak.</p>
<p>The Ontario Human Rights Commission would like nothing better than to chip away at religious freedom for doctors, and it looks like the public won’t stand in their way. When the College last reviewed its human rights policy in 2008, the Ontario Human Rights Commission <a href="http://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/submission-ontario-human-rights-commission-college-physicians-and-surgeons-ontario-regarding-draft-0">urged</a> the College to clamp down on doctors <a href="http://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/submission-ontario-human-rights-commission-college-physicians-and-surgeons-ontario-regarding-draft-0#sthash.bsaDMFlQ.dpuf">saying</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>“It is [our] position that doctors, as providers of services that are not religious in nature, must essentially &#8216;check their personal views at the door&#8217; in providing medical care.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Rolling up religious freedom into the confines of our heads is as unCanadian as it is totalitarian. No dictator can control minds, but real freedom concerns the ability to conform our actions to our deepest values. As Canada&#8217;s Supreme Court stated in <a href="http://scc.lexum.org/decisia-scc-csc/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/43/index.do"><em>R v Big M Drug Mart</em></a>, in what is still considered the definitive statement on this subject:</p>
<blockquote><p>“The essence of the concept of freedom of religion is the right to entertain such religious beliefs as a person chooses, the right to declare religious beliefs openly and without fear of hindrance or reprisal, and the right to manifest religious belief by worship and practice or by teaching and dissemination.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Canada has a long history of tolerating various religious practices and differences, such as accommodating Sikh RCMP officers wearing turbans at work. But if we turn the tide against religious accommodation, expect to see secularism enforced in other professions and against other religious groups. Canada as a whole stands to become less free.</p>
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		<title>Anti-Israel Protesters: The Jews Control All the Oil and Obama</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Michael Coren of SUN News (Canada&#8217;s equivalent of FOX News) went out to chat with a few anti-Israel protesters. And the results were <a href="http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/3674984029001#3674984027001">filled with the usual doses of crazy</a>. </p>
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<p>The moment when the protester states that he would fake a death for his own country is quite revealing of the whole conspiracy mindset and the origins of Pallywood. He assumes that Israel would do anything that he would.</p>
<p>Coren, who has criticized Israel, was accused of working for the Jews by protesters who seemed to think that the Jews control all the oil and Obama. That&#8217;s like accusing Muslims of hogging all the Nobel prizes and neurotic comedy. There was lots of excitability and very little logic and at one point Coren suggests that without the police, they would have been in danger. </p>
<p>I saw a clip of him, that I can&#8217;t seem to find now, where he says that if he were a Jewish teenager, he would already be dead.</p>
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		<title>Canada On Verge of Banning Christians from Professional Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2014 04:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/image1.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-226520 alignleft" alt="image" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/image1-450x340.jpg" width="315" height="238" /></a>An intense struggle is happening in the realm of professional licensing in Canada. The religious freedom of Christians and others is colliding on a grand scale with the “equality rights” of the LGBTQ identity group, and as the tide turns in favor of equality rights, we are starting to witness socially accepted ostracism of Christians by professional bodies.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">On April 24th, the law society of Canada’s largest province </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/trinity-western-law-school-rejected-by-ontario-law-society-1.2621211">voted against</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> admitting among their ranks graduates of Trinity Western University, for the sole reason that the school’s </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://twu.ca/studenthandbook/university-policies/community-covenant-agreement.html">community covenant</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, which students (and teachers) voluntarily sign upon admission or hiring, reserves sexual intimacy for heterosexual marriage. </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/n-s-law-society-grants-conditional-approval-for-trinity-western-grads-1.2622367">Nova Scotia</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> followed suit, wording their rejection as approval on the condition that TWU change its community covenant or allow students to opt out. In British Columbia, where the school is located, the law society voted on April 11th </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/trinity-western-university-s-law-school-approved-by-b-c-law-society-1.2606964">to admit</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> TWU graduates to the bar, but momentum is building for the law society to reverse that decision in a </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.lawsociety.bc.ca/page.cfm?cid=3912&amp;t=Special-General-Meeting-June-10,-2014&amp;loc=banner">special meeting</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> on June 10th.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The Supreme Court of Canada will likely soon have a chance to settle this matter, since Trinity Western University has just </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/trinity-western-launches-court-action-to-defend-law-school-1.2633816">launched lawsuits</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> against the law societies of Ontario and Nova Scotia, rightly alleging that they failed to stick to the law and follow an earlier Supreme Court decision that approved TWU’s covenant. That 2001 decision, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://scc-csc.lexum.com/decisia-scc-csc/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/1867/index.do"><i>Trinity Western University v. BC College of Teachers</i></a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, is still good law, but many of our country’s top lawyers have become convinced that a shift in public opinion and the legalization of same-sex marriage have altered the climate enough to overturn the Court’s earlier opinion.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Such lawyers might well be right. With same-sex marriage legalized, the public debate is now strongly weighed against Christians who believe in traditional marriage, and they face rapidly mounting charges of unreasonable intolerance. During the April 11th debate by the B.C. law society (read the </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.lawsociety.bc.ca/docs/newsroom/TWU-transcript.pdf">transcript</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> online), some Benchers considered TWU’s covenant discriminatory because it requires gay students to abstain from intimacy “even within a legal marriage,” and because it prevents gay students “from being married by the State, a right that was hard fought and hard won.”</span></p>
<p><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">Christians Belong in the Closet</b></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">As equality rights have been gaining ground, religious freedom has been on the retreat. Many lawyers now argue that even a private religious school like TWU must not be allowed to “discriminate” in its hiring practices by choosing teachers who abide by its moral tenets or by expecting students to conform their behavior to the beliefs that the school espouses.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This new “balance” between religious freedom and equality rights essentially asks TWU to enter the proverbial closet. It would mean that gay students or teachers could openly live out lifestyles that directly violate TWU’s religious values, while TWU would effectively be disabled from creating a campus life reflective of its religious beliefs.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The new reasoning holds that even as religiously-based morality is pushed out of the realm of action and into the confines of our minds, religious freedom is not being impacted. As B.C. Bencher Joe Arvay put it: “No one is asking any of their religious students or faculty to abandon their beliefs.” As long as no mind control is being applied, we are apparently free. But the mere freedom to think religious thoughts is a very narrow religious freedom indeed.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Such a restrictive understanding of religious freedom led Bencher Dean Lawton to caution the B.C. Law Society not to become “Pharisees of secularism,” and Bencher David Crossin agreed: </span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">[T]he right to assemble and the right to freely and openly practice religious belief&#8230;is a fundamental right in this country that is to be jealously guarded&#8230;a response that sidesteps this fundamental Canadian freedom in order to either punish TWU for its value system or force it to replace it&#8230;would risk undermining freedom of religion for all and&#8230;would be a dangerous over-extension of institutional power.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">Christians Are the New Racists</b></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Just a few years ago, it would have sounded absurd to say that Christians who believe in traditional heterosexual marriage are akin to racists. Today this opinion is quite seriously held by an increasing number of our most prominent lawyers. B.C. Bencher Cameron Ward put it this way: “I remember that in the 1960s some people in the deep south of the United States were made to feel unwelcome at lunch counters, at the fronts of buses and, indeed, in some universities&#8230;TWU’s community covenant is an anachronism, a throwback that wouldn’t be out of place in the 1960s.” Other Benchers asked “whether we would have the same debate over discrimination against other equity-seeking groups, like women, people with disabilities or racial minorities.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">What is perhaps most concerning about these comparisons of Christianity to racism and other heinous intolerance is that they lead directly to the belief that Christians are simply not capable of practicing their professions without imperilling the rights of minority groups. Just as they would feel justified in excluding those who hold racist or misogynistic beliefs from positions of influence, so many Benchers also found it right and good to exclude Christians from the legal profession. For such lawyers, Christians have become synonymous with bigots who represent a public threat.</span></p>
<p><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">What Is Next for Canada?</b></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Trinity Western University has started the process of bringing this whole matter back to the Supreme Court of Canada, but the outcome of that legal journey is far from certain. The climate has steadily shifting in favour of equality rights, and significant factions in the legal community now believe that religious freedom should be far more limited. Ontario’s law society is the largest and most influential in Canada, and its ostracism of TWU may well be heralding a new trend of exclusion of Christians from public and professional life.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">If the Supreme Court decides against TWU, then surely other professional bodies will not stay far behind Ontario and Nova Scotia in excluding the graduates of TWU. Teachers already tried to do this in 2001, and emboldened by a new ruling they would surely try again. Nurses, dentists, accountants and other professionals could well follow suit.</span></p>
<p>Other Christian schools need to get ready for the domino effect. There are various independent religious schools in Canada, and many of them have covenants. Such schools should get ready for difficult decisions about putting their faith into practice. While they may be allowed to keep their covenants for the time being, they could be limiting the job opportunities of their graduates by doing so.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In the future, even foreign-trained students may not find welcome in Canada if their schools profess the sanctity of traditional marriage. Many international law students arrive in Canada each year, and currently the law societies do not look at the belief systems of the schools they came from but rather, they examine the academic training these students received. All this may change if our law societies proceed further in the direction of excluding students from schools like TWU. Even American students studying at private religious schools with covenants that profess the sanctity of traditional marriage might find their future career options curtailed in Canada.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The current developments in Canada bring to mind a quote from Princeton Professor Robert George, who recently </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.catholicprayerbreakfast.com/robert_george_remarks_2014.pdf">warned</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> Catholics in Washington, D.C. of a nascent persecution of Christians in our society:</span></p>
<blockquote><p>To be a witness to the Gospel today is to make oneself a marked man or woman. It is to expose oneself to scorn and reproach. To unashamedly proclaim the Gospel in its fullness is to place in jeopardy one’s security, one’s personal aspirations and ambitions, the peace and tranquility one enjoys, one’s standing in polite society. One may in consequence of one’s public witness be discriminated against and denied educational opportunities and the prestigious credentials they may offer; one may lose valuable opportunities for employment and professional advancement; one may be excluded from worldly recognition and honors of various sorts; one’s witness may even cost one treasured friendships. It may produce familial discord and even alienation from family members. Yes, there are costs of discipleship—heavy costs.</p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">These are the costs that Christians in Canada may indeed now have to bear, much sooner than they perhaps expected.</span></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/hardisty.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-223895" alt="Blog Post for Canada Trade Story" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/hardisty-450x323.jpg" width="315" height="226" /></a>In a transparent political sop aimed at radical environmentalists and their big-buck donors, the Obama administration </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/04/18/obama-administration-extends-review-period-for-keystone-xl-oil-pipeline/">announced</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> it is indefinitely extending the review period for the Keystone XL pipeline. The delay, announced in a Good Friday news dump, will likely push the final decision on the project past the November mid-term elections. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Republicans, red-state Democrats and a top labor union official hammered the move.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), the ranking Republican on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2014/04/21/new-keystone-xl-delay-a-stunning-act-of-political-cowardice/">characterized</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> the delay as “nothing short of a stunning act of political cowardice.” Rep. Lee Terry (R-NB) contended it was “shameful,” further explaining that another spring construction season will be lost as result. They were joined by Democrats such as Sen. Mark Pryor (D-AK), who </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2014/04/21/new-keystone-xl-delay-a-stunning-act-of-political-cowardice/">contended</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> “there’s no excuse for another delay,” and Sen. Mark Begich (D-AK) who was “frankly appalled at the continued foot-dragging by this administration on the Keystone project.” </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Terry O’Sullivan, general president of the Laborers International Union of America (LIUNA) was equally appalled, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.liuna.org/news/story/liuna-on-further-delay-of-keystone-recommendation">calling</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> the decision “politics at its worst,” further noting that it represents &#8220;another low blow to the working men and women of our country for whom the Keystone XL Pipeline is a lifeline to good jobs and energy security.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The Obama administration was in the midst of a 90-day review period, during which federal agencies were examining an environmental study provided by the State Department when the delay was announced. That would be the latest study. The State Department has been studying the potential impact of the pipeline for the last six years.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Regardless, they contended they were giving those agencies &#8220;additional time,” due in part to litigation taking place before before the Nebraska Supreme Court that could determine the final route. In February, Lancaster County District Judge Stephanie Stacy </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://journalstar.com/news/state-and-regional/nebraska-lawsuit-delays-decision-on-keystone-xl/article_4708f513-0b75-5e9c-b733-2c1caed9753c.html">ruled</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> that a 2012 law allowing Gov. Dave Heineman to approve the proposed route through that state was unconstitutional. The Nebraska Supreme Court’s current schedule makes it unlikely the case can be resolved before the election.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">O’Sullivan completely rejected that excuse. “The administration is delaying a finding on whether the pipeline is in the national interest based on months-old litigation in Nebraska regarding a state level challenge to a state process—and which has nothing to with the national interest,” he said in a Friday statement.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Another excuse for the delay trotted out by State was the &#8220;unprecedented number&#8221; of new public comments, totaling nearly 2.5 million received during a separate comment period ending in early March. &#8220;The Permit process will conclude once factors that have a significant impact on determining the national interest of the proposed project have been evaluated and appropriately reflected in the decision documents,” the Department said. State has jurisdiction over the issue because the pipeline crosses the U.S.-Canada border.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The latest delay infuriated 11 Democrats, who only days earlier had sent Obama a letter urging him to make a final decision by May. The letter noted that the process surrounding the project &#8220;has been exhaustive in its time, breadth and scope.” </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Their pleas were effectively ignored by the administration, despite the fact that the non-decision leaves many Democrats </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.politico.com/story/2014/04/keystone-xl-democrats-2014-elections-105836.html">vulnerable</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> in a year where their current hold on the Senate looks increasingly tenuous. Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA), chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, who is desperately fighting to save her seat in the upper chamber, was especially incensed. &#8220;This decision is irresponsible, unnecessary and unacceptable,&#8221; she said. &#8220;By making it clear that they will not move the process forward until there is a resolution in a lawsuit in Nebraska, the administration is sending a signal that the small minority who oppose the pipeline can tie up the process in court forever. There are 42,000 jobs, $20 billion in economic activity and North America&#8217;s energy security at stake.” Landrieu also threatened to &#8220;take decisive action to get this pipeline permit approved.” </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">That’s unlikely to happen. While the Senate last year voted 62-37 on a non-binding amendment to approve the project, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) probably won&#8217;t upset the administration’s political strategy. It is one that ostensibly mitigates the political damage for Democrats in oil states, since no decision is better than an outright rejection of the project. At the same time, the delay keeps the Democrats’ environmentalist constituency happy, along with big-bucks donors like billionaire hedge-fund operator Tom Steyer, who has </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/18/us/politics/financier-plans-big-ad-campaign-on-environment.html?_r=0">pledged</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> to spend $100 million supporting Democrats who champion tough legislation to combat climate change. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">As Landreiu and her 11 fellow Democrats have indicated, the first part of the strategy is flawed. As an exhaustive exposé by Powerline’s John Hinderacker published yesterday reveals, the second part of the strategy is on shaky ground as well. Hinderaker </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/04/the-epic-hypocrisy-of-tom-steyer.php">chronicles</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> the machinations of Farallon Capital Management L.L.C., a hedge fund founded by Steyer in 1986. It made billions—from thermal coal production. &#8220;Today, he is a bitter opponent of fossil fuels, especially coal,” Hinderaker explains. &#8220;That fits with his current economic interests: banning coal-fired power plants will boost the value of his solar projects.” </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Steyer isn’t alone in promoting such monumental hypocrisy. On January 31, the State Department released its own </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://keystonepipeline-xl.state.gov/finalseis/index.htm">report</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> of its final environmental impact study. It stated that the Keystone XL pipeline will not increase carbon emissions.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Sheer reality animated that decision. New Jersey&#8217;s </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Star-Ledger</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> editorial page editor Tom Moran connects the dots. &#8220;This oil will get to market, one way or another,” he writes. &#8220;Canada can build substitute pipelines to either coast, feeding demand in China or Europe, or both….In other words&#8230; the oil will still be burned. That is the rock-hard reality these environmentalists do not want to face.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It is a rock-hard reality that seemingly works to Republican advantage. Even though labor unions invariably align themselves with Democrats, LIUNA has distributed a letter in the districts of 27 House Democrats, urging their members to warn their respective representatives not to oppose the pipeline. &#8220;For every action, there is a reaction, and our reaction to this frontal assault on our way of life needs to be loud and clear. If you do not stand with us, we sure as hell will not stand with you,” it stated. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Republicans themselves were pushing the notion that Democrats who support the pipeline are nonetheless ineffective legislators, incapable of passing legislation important to the people in their respective states. &#8220;Landrieu has been telling anyone who will listen how influential she is after being named Chairman of the Energy Committee, but it turns out that Landrieu isn&#8217;t influential at all,” said National Republican Senatorial Committee spokesman Brad Dayspring in a </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://e.nrsc.org/t/j-863A129C4EAA86F7">statement</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> released Monday. He continued, &#8220;Landrieu isn&#8217;t alone. The Keystone delay simply reinforces how ineffective, powerless and without influence Senators like Mark Begich, Mark Udall, Mark Pryor, Mark Warner and Kay Hagan are. Just a week prior to the President&#8217;s announcement, these Senators ‘urged&#8217; President Obama to approve Keystone, a plea which he proceeded to blatantly and publicly ignore.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Republicans have also made the connection between Reid and Steyer. An ad produced by </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">American Commitment </i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">blasts Reid for attacking the conservative Koch brothers, even as he gets in bed with the the Steyer Brothers, Tom and Jim. The RNC also </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/03/11/RNC-Harry-Reid-rented-US-senate-to-billionaire-environmentalist-s-cause">characterized</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> the Democrats’ all-night conference on climate change in March as tantamount to renting out the Senate floor to Steyer in exchange for much-needed campaign cash. “Last night’s talk-a-thon was nothing more than payback for Steyer’s donations to the Democrat Party,” they said in a statement. &#8220;Either Mr. Reid or the Democrat Party needs to reimburse taxpayers for their campaign stunt.” The </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Washington Post</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">’s Ed O’Keefe </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/03/10/what-the-senates-all-nighter-on-climate-change-is-really-about/">echoed</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> that assessment at the time. “There is another more political reason for the decision by Senate Democrats to devote their time to the [climate change] issue right now,” he contended. &#8220;And that issue is campaign cash.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Unsurprisingly on Sunday, the ever-reliable DNC Chair and Florida Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/rep-schultz-politics-didnt-factor-into-obama-keystone-pipeline-delay/">denied</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> the Obama administration’s decision was driven by politics. &#8220;As a member of Congress who represents hundreds of thousands of people in south Florida, I want to make sure the right decision is arrived at and that the president makes that decision carefully and doesn’t factor politics into his decision, which I don’t think he is,” she assured &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; host David Gregory. She further insisted Obama doesn’t need to shore up his political base to keep the Senate from falling into GOP hands. &#8220;Take a look at the 2012 U.S. Senate results,” she declared. &#8220;You have in almost half of the Senate races that we had an open seat, the Democratic candidate won even though Mitt Romney won that state. So, you know, the predictions that we are headed for the minority in the United States Senate really don’t line up with the historical situation on the ground in those campaigns.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">One suspects the thousands of Americans who have worked on pipeline projects in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, where LIUNA members are employed, aren’t buying it. One Pittsburgh-area contractor in the involved in the fracking-inspired oil boom explained why.  “It has created more work for our business. There’s jobs here for the first time in many, many years. Legitimate, good-paying jobs,” </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.vindy.com/news/2014/apr/21/unions-support-of-drilling-causes-fracki/">said</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> Alex Paris, head of a firm founded by his grandfather in 1928. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Employees were equally impressed. “I’ve probably worked 15 jobs, and none of them nearly as stable as this one, or nearly as interesting,” said Amy Dague, 38, of Wheeling, W.Va. “It’s definitely changed the way I see my future. I see this as long-term employment,” she added.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It is a future Democrats and their environmentalist allies would thoroughly squander, along with our relationship with Canada, which is becoming frustrated by the cynical political calculations involved here. Furthermore, it is an effort doomed to fail. As Canadian Ambassador to the U.S. Gary Doer told Fox News, the oil is coming &#8220;whether it be by rail or truck.” In the meantime, Democrats aligned with the Obama administration will continue to make one thing increasingly clear: when it comes to doing right by the overwhelming majority of the American public that supports the pipeline by a nearly </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/new-post-abc-news-poll-keystone-xl-project-overwhelmingly-favored-by-americans/2014/03/06/d74c58c6-a4a1-11e3-a5fa-55f0c77bf39c_story.html">3 to 1 margin</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, or remaining beholden to crony capitalists and their radical environmental allies, the public gets the short end of the pipeline. Along with the ObamaCare debacle, it’s one more thing the public is sure to remember next November.</span></p>
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		<title>Muslim Imam Claims Beating Women Isn&#8217;t Domestic Violence if it&#8217;s Not Agonizing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2014 15:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["This does not imply that Allah is promoting domestic violence."]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_223727" style="width: 429px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Shaykh-Omar-Subedar-hypocrite.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-223727" alt="Shaykh Omar Subedar hypocrite" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Shaykh-Omar-Subedar-hypocrite.jpg" width="419" height="279" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The Sheikh says: &#8220;Don&#8217;t beat women&#8230;. too hard.&#8221;</p></div>
<p>Multiculturalism requires all sorts of linguistic redefinitions. Like <a href="http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com/2014/04/cbcs-go-to-imam-apologist-for-muslim.html">redefining the meaning of domestic violence</a>.</p>
<p>Sheikh Omar Subedar of the Imam, Islamic Society of Peel in Canada, <a href="http://muslimsforwhiteribbon.com/imam-omar-subedar/">signed the White Ribbon pledge</a> to: &#8220;never commit, condone or remain silent about violence against women and girls.&#8221;</p>
<p>But the White Ribbon folks should have explored his <a href="http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com/2014/04/cbcs-go-to-imam-apologist-for-muslim.html">definition of &#8220;violence&#8221;</a> a bit more closely.</p>
<p>At the Canadian Council of Muslim Theologians, the Imam writes, &#8220;Strike them: If the problem still does not get resolved then as a final resort Allah has permitted the husband to discipline his wife by striking her, however this does not imply that Allah is promoting domestic violence. The Prophet (P.B.U.H.) has made it very clear that the beating should not be agonizing in any shape or form.&#8221;</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not sure that the Canadian authorities accept Sheikh Omar Subedar and Mohammed&#8217;s definition of domestic violence, but it&#8217;s probably only a matter of time until they do in the name of cultural sensitivity. And we&#8217;ll see Tumblr cartoons ridiculing white women for trying to &#8220;save&#8221; Muslim women from being beaten.</p>
<p>In addition to the Hijabis and Niqabis, we&#8217;ll have the Blackeyenis who will claim that they can be strong women and accept beatings at home. Because that&#8217;s their culture and religion.</p>
<p>And the Western lefties will smile stiffly and nod and make a bunch of TV shows about intolerant Westerners who discriminate against Muslims by arresting them for domestic violence.</p>
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<p>This is obviously meant to cover black men who self-identify as women and exclude black women who self-identify as men. But what about white women who self-identify as black women? Or white men who self-identify as black women?</p>
<p>If we&#8217;re going to treat<a href="http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com/2014/01/great-liar-kim-dong-wynne-goes-full.html"> basic human biology as a matter of self-identification</a>, why not treat race, which is much more of a construct, the same way?</p>
<p>Obama chooses to identify as a black male. He could self-identify as a white man. Elizabeth Warren tried to self-identify as a Cherokee woman. There are a lot of white aborigines in Australia who self-identify as aborigines and gain the benefits from it.</p>
<p>What exactly is to stop a white woman from self-identifying as black and demanding a promotion based on affirmative action?</p>
<blockquote><p>TORONTO &#8212; The Ontario government has launched a project to open up promotion possibilities for its employees &#8212; but only those who &#8220;self-identify as a black female&#8221; need apply.</p>
<p>According to documents obtained by QMI Agency, the Administrative Internship Pilot Program is the first Ontario Public Service (OPS) initiative in &#8220;recent history&#8221; to target a specific group of employees.</p>
<p>&#8220;The purpose of this internship program, which has been developed after considering employees&#8217; feedback and OPS employment data, is to begin to increase the representation of black, female employees in functional roles (such as) communications, finance, policy and procurement,&#8221; a Dec. 5 memo to all Ministry of Government Services employees reads.</p>
<p>However, Gregory Thomas of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation said all Ontarians should receive equal treatment from their government.</p></blockquote>
<p>But they can. All they have to do is self-identify as black females&#8230; and then finally everyone will be equal. And questioning anyone&#8217;s self-identification or economic policies will be considered a hate crime.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2014 05:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How Canada's support for Israel has improved the country's geopolitical standing.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/000.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-217213" alt="000" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/000.jpg" width="289" height="233" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Canada-takes-its-place-at-the-table-339222">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p>During a press conference with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, an Israeli reporter asked Prime Minister Stephen Harper, “Is Canada paying a price for being so supportive of Israel? Is it possible to support Israel and still have ties to the Arab world?”</p>
<p>This question goes to the heart of what is generally perceived as Israel’s greatest weakness. The Arab boycott of Israel and of countries doing business with Israel has served as one of the most potent weapons in the anti-Israel arsenal for over a generation. Indeed, since the OPEC oil embargo in 1974, it has been the Arabs’ single most powerful weapon in their unceasing campaign for the destruction of the Jewish state.</p>
<p>It was Arab economic bullying that forced African nations to cut their ties with the Jewish state.</p>
<p>It was the Arab use of the oil weapon after the 1973 Yom Kippur War that convinced Western Europe to end its diplomatic support for Israel and throw in with the PLO.</p>
<p>More than anything else, it is the Arab economic boycott of companies that do business with Israel that has eroded Israel’s diplomatic standing over the past two generations and transformed the only human rights respecting democracy in the Middle East into an international pariah.</p>
<p>And yet, under Stephen Harper, as the noose of international isolation is drawn around Israel’s neck more tightly every day, Canada has emerged as an outspoken supporter and defender of the Jewish state.</p>
<p>So in essence, the Israeli reporter’s question to Harper could easily be rephrased as, “Are you crazy?” Harper responded to the question by rejecting its premises – that the Arab world behaves as a bloc, and that standing up for your convictions is a losing proposition when those convictions involve taking unpopular stands.</p>
<p>As he put it, “I wouldn’t want to say there is no price, but my general view of the world is that people respect your view, if you express it appropriately and they understand it’s genuine….The fact of the matter is, Canada has deep relations with many Arab countries…. And frankly [there are] many matters where we probably far more often agree than disagree. So look, I don’t think it’s automatically the view that if you have a particular issue where you disagree, that this needs to rupture relationships irrevocably.”</p>
<p>In other words, what Harper acknowledged was that yes, Canada has lost contracts in some Arab countries due to its support for Israel. But by and large, it hasn’t taken a serious hit.</p>
<p>The obvious follow-up question would have been to ask if Canada gains anything from its support for Israel that can compensate for the economic hits it takes for it.</p>
<p>The answer to that question is yes, Canada, and other countries that support Israel now, when such support is more notable than it was in the past, do gain significantly from their actions. This is true on two levels.</p>
<p>First, economically, Israel is in a far different position than it was 20 years ago. During Harper’s visit, Canada and Israel updated their free trade agreement and signed a number of other agreements enhancing cooperation in multiple fields.</p>
<p>As Netanyahu said, “I think that cooperation makes us both stronger and more prosperous and more secure countries.”</p>
<p>Canada isn’t alone in recognizing the economic potential of good ties with Israel. Consider Norway.</p>
<p>For the past 15 years, Norway has distinguished itself as a trailblazer in the European bid to isolate Israel politically and wage economic warfare against it. Norway was among the first European countries to divest from Israeli companies.</p>
<p>Its trade unions have been leading purveyors of anti-Israel propaganda and economic warfare.</p>
<p>Last fall Norway elected a new conservative government. And under the leadership of Prime Minister Erna Solberg, Norway is seeking to rebuild its ties with Israel. Just after the election, the Israeli embassy in Oslo hosted a meeting of Norwegian and Israeli businessmen. Norway’s new finance minister is interested in cooperation between Norway’s oil industry and Israel’s new natural gas sector.</p>
<p>Norway’s new minister of culture, Thorhild Widvey, held a workshop for 160 Norwegian television producers with Israeli producers who successfully sold Israeli series to the US market.</p>
<p>Disowning the boycott Israel movement, Widvey said, “We don’t see the boycott as an effective tool to promote positive change.”</p>
<p>Today, the economies of the Arab world are collapsing. Fracking technologies are lowering demand for Middle Eastern oil. Political instability is drying up foreign investment and tourism.</p>
<p>And local universities are incapable of producing graduates able to function in the global economy.</p>
<p>As a consequence, the Arabs’ capacity to intimidate governments into rejecting the economic benefits Israel has to offer is steadily decreasing.</p>
<p>Israel’s ability to compensate for potential loss of Arab business is not the main reason why supporting Israel helps Canada. Far more importantly for Canada, support for Israel gives Ottawa a say in global affairs. Canada today has the power to shape the global agenda to a degree it never had before.</p>
<p>Until Harper came along, Canada’s foreign policy was mainly characterized by Ottawa’s enthusiasm for all UN-related things. But Canada’s involvement in the UN never bought it a place at the table.</p>
<p>Down south in Washington, to the extent anyone thought about Canada at all outside the contexts of oil, beer and hockey, it was considered a run-of-the-mill NATO ally which occasionally expressed mild hostility to US power.</p>
<p>Under Harper’s leadership, Canada has become a player in the global arena for the first time. And this achievement owes in large part to his decision to support Israel.</p>
<p>Since the US became the leader of the free world at the end of World War II, several of its loyal allies built up their international position by exerting moral leadership and so convincing – through inspiration or shame – Washington to follow their example.</p>
<p>Britain is the prime example of this model.</p>
<p>Both Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher won Britain a place at the table by staking out moral and strategic positions on Communism and other issues that the US was unable to reject without openly breaking with its own interests and stated goals.</p>
<p>Israel has also managed to stake out a position on the global stage – currently on the issue of Iran’s nuclear weapons program – by pointing out the contradictions between the US’s national interest of cultivating a stable Middle East and its current policy of mollycoddling the mullahs in Tehran while facilitating their nuclear weapons program.</p>
<p>By standing with Israel, Canada is filling a part of the leadership vacuum that the Obama administration has created by stepping away from the US’s responsibilities as the leader of the free world. From the G8 to the UN and beyond, Canada’s support for Israel has enabled Ottawa to influence US and European policy to a degree it never has before.</p>
<p>Canada’s enhanced moral stature was demonstrated this week with UNESCO’s abrupt decision to cancel the opening of an exhibition on the Jewish people’s 3,500-year history in the Land of Israel that was scheduled to open at UNESCO’s Paris Headquarters on Sunday.</p>
<p>Canada, Israel and Montenegro co-sponsored the exhibition which was organized jointly by the Simon Wiesenthal Center and UNESCO.</p>
<p>On January 9, the US rejected the Wiesenthal Center’s request for US co-sponsorship.</p>
<p>Kelly Siekman, director of the Office of UNESCO Affairs at the State Department wrote, “At this sensitive juncture in the ongoing Middle East peace process, and after thoughtful consideration with review at the highest levels, we have made the decision that the United States will not be able to co-sponsor the current exhibit during its display at UNESCO headquarters.”</p>
<p>In other words, the Obama administration opted to reject the historical fact that the Jews are the indigenous people of the Land of Israel in order to promote a peace process with the PLO, which, like the Arab world in general, rejects historical fact in its bid to delegitimize with the aim of destroying the Jewish state.</p>
<p>Five days after Siekman rejected the Wiesenthal Center’s request, the Arab members of UNESCO wrote a letter to UNESCO President Irina Bokova demanding that the exhibition be canceled in the interest of the peace process. Bokova quickly bowed to their will, in the interest of the peace process.</p>
<p>While the administration was quick to condemn UNESCO’s decision, it was left stuttering when the media discovered that UNESCO’s actions were of a piece with the administration’s own policy decision.</p>
<p>The administration’s embarrassment at this revelation was exponentially amplified by the fact that its duplicity, hypocrisy and preference for political expedience over historical facts came to light while Harper was in Israel, since unlike the Obama administration, the Harper government did co-sponsor the canceled exhibition.</p>
<p>Harper emerged from the UNESCO affront to the historical record as an unrivaled force of conscience and as a moral leader on a world stage populated by opportunists, at best. His position served as a warning to the US that its sacrifice of truth on the altar of the peace process will not go unnoticed.</p>
<p>Canada, it should be noted, is not the only country whose support for Israel is distinguishing it as a moral leader and facilitating its rise to a position of global influence. Australia’s new center-right Liberal government is also making a name for itself by rejecting anti-Israel nostrums that have become accepted wisdom despite the fact that they are based on lies.</p>
<p>For years, the false Arab claim that Israeli communities beyond the 1949 armistice lines are illegal under international law has gone unchallenged.</p>
<p>But last week, Australian Foreign Minister Julia Bishop dropped a bombshell when, in an interview with The Times of Israel, she broke from the consensus of mendacity saying, “I would like to see which international law has declared them illegal.”</p>
<p>Statements by Australian foreign ministers seldom receive global coverage. But Bishop’s did.</p>
<p>And the more outspoken Australia is in its support for Israel and rejection of the discourse of lies that characterizes the discussion of Israel, the more attention Australia will get and the more influential it will become on the world stage.</p>
<p>Like Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, Harper’s decision to support Israel is rooted in his most deeply held convictions about right and wrong. There is nothing opportunistic about his policy.</p>
<p>It is therefore wonderful and empowering that by staying true to his beliefs, Harper is also transforming Canada into a force to be reckoned with on the global stage. Moreover, he is setting an example that will likely be followed by more and more countries, as the benefits of his embrace of Israel become widely recognized.<br />
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Caroline Glick’s new book, </em>The Israeli Solution: A One-State Plan for Peace in the Middle East<em>, is due out on March 4.</em></p>
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		<title>Liberal Canadian Ex-Defense Minister Says Environmentalist Aliens Will Give Us Free Stuff</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2014 14:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hellyer says that there is a “federation” of aliens ]]></description>
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<p>Talk about interstellar entitlements and little green men. And the scary thing is<a href="http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com/2014/01/former-canadian-defense-minister-says.html#disqus_thread"> I still don&#8217;t know who would have made a worse</a> Prime Minister, this guy or Pierre Trudeau.</p>
<blockquote><p>Hellyer, 90, said he believes there are 80 different species of extraterrestrials, some of whom “look just like us and they could walk down the street and you wouldn’t know if you walked past one.</p>
<p>Hellyer described a cosmos similar to that of Star Trek and says that there is a “federation” of aliens that has a rule to not interfere in our affairs — the same as Trek’s “prime directive.”</p></blockquote>
<p>But don&#8217;t assume that the former Canadian Defense Minister gets all his ideas from Star Trek. He also gets some from Star Wars.</p>
<blockquote><p>Hellyer&#8217;s concerned that we might truly need a Star Wars capability &#8220;if we shoot down every UFO that comes into our airspace.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>And just to throw in some X-Files and Sister Act&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>Indeed, <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57616630-71/canadas-ex-defense-minister-aliens-would-give-us-more-tech-if-wed-stop-wars/">he claimed that </a>two alien ladies went to Las Vegas to shop dressed as nuns and no one was any the wiser.</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s oddly specific.</p>
<blockquote><p>In case you feel you might have met one in your home town, some are tall (&#8220;Nordic blondes&#8221;), some are short (&#8220;Short Grays&#8221;), and some look like aliens in cartoons.</p></blockquote>
<p>And some are former Defense Ministers with mental problems.</p>
<blockquote><p>In previous pronouncements, Hellyer has insisted that aliens know how to make us greener.</p></blockquote>
<p>He means technologically. That works out since Global Warming is as ridiculous as UFOs and just as scientifically valid.</p>
<blockquote><p>Microchips and Kevlar vests are two of the other creations that, according to the serious Hellyer, came from outer spatial sources.</p>
<p>We would get a lot more technology from them &#8220;if we would go about it peacefully.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Or we could just taser it out of them.</p>
<blockquote><p>“They don’t want to tell us how to run our affairs, they have accepted the fact that this is our planet, and that we have the right to run it, but they are very-very concerned: they don’t think we are good stewards of our planet, we’re clear-cutting our forests, we’re polluting our rivers and our lakes, and we’re dumping sewage in the oceans, and we’re doing all sorts of things that are not what good stewards of their homes should be doing. They don’t like that and they made it very clear. As a matter of fact, they have given us a warning.”</p></blockquote>
<p>So they&#8217;re alien environmentalists. Remember what I wrote about<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/the-magical-thinking-of-the-left/"> the magical thinking of the left</a>? This is it. And gobs of eco-paganism on top.</p>
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		<title>Canadian Supreme Court Says Prostitution Ban Violates Rights of Prostitutes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Dec 2013 15:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>The strange thing about this decision is how its talk of values and its pretense that it isn&#8217;t taking a position on prostitution resembles the gay marriage rulings in the United States. Or<a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2013/12/21/canadian-supreme-court-strikes-down-prostitution-laws/"> maybe it isn&#8217;t surprising at </a>all.</p>
<p>The Canadian Supreme Court struck down laws against deriving income from prostitution, aka a ban on pimps, because, and I quote, &#8220;It also criminalizes those who “increase the safety and security of prostitutes,” such as legitimate drivers, managers and bodyguards.&#8221;</p>
<p>Furthermore it found that a <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/supreme-court-prostitution-decision-5-questions-1.2471934">ban on solicitation in public </a>was also illegal.</p>
<blockquote><p>In addition, the law on prohibiting soliciting was designed “not to eliminate street prostitution for its own sake, but to take prostitution off the streets and out of public view in order to prevent the nuisances that street prostitution can cause. The provision’s negative impact on the safety and lives of street prostitutes, who are prevented by the communicating prohibition from screening potential clients for intoxication and propensity to violence, is a grossly disproportionate response to the possibility of nuisance caused by street prostitution.”</p>
<p>“These restrictions on prostitution put the safety and lives of prostitutes at risk and are therefore unconstitutional,” Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin wrote.</p></blockquote>
<p>The prostitution decision follows much the same underlying logic as gay marriage. You can fully ban something&#8230; but you can&#8217;t partially ban something.</p>
<p>Civil unions legally made gay marriage inevitable. As long as prostitution is allowed, attempting to artificially restrict it by context, will be struck down by leftist justices.</p>
<blockquote><p>Lawyers for the federal and Ontario governments argued that if prostitutes want to avoid the inherent risks of prostitution, they could simply choose not to engage in it.</p></blockquote>
<p>But that would just be crazy. We all know that oppressed classes don&#8217;t have choices. Gay men don&#8217;t choose to be gay. Prostitutes don&#8217;t choose to be prostitutes. Transsexuals don&#8217;t choose to be transsexuals.</p>
<blockquote><p>“Yes, great day for Canada, Canadian women from coast to coast,” declared Terri Jean Bedford, bedecked in dominatrix attire.</p>
<p>Kim Pate, executive director of the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies, called it a “sad day.”</p>
<p>“We have now confirmed that it’s okay to buy and sell women and girls in this country,” she said. “I think generations to come, our daughters, their granddaughters and on will look back and say, ‘what were they thinking?’”</p></blockquote>
<p>This is what happens when the left takes over.</p>
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		<title>Same ISNA, Same Terror</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2013 05:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISNA Canada loses its tax status because of terrorist financing. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/isba.gif"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-212870" alt="isba" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/isba.gif" width="245" height="244" /></a>The Islamic Society of North America or ISNA, as its name implies, is a function of both the United States and Canada. Given that that is the case, a question might arise as to whether the group operates as two separate entities, one in each of its respective countries, or one single organization. And if the two entities are actually one, if one part has action taken against it regarding a terror-related matter, should not the other suffer the same fate or should it instead be embraced by the government?</p>
<p>In September of this year, following an audit it had done of ISNA, the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), an arm of the Canadian government, <a href="http://www.torontosun.com/2013/09/20/islamic-groups-charitable-status-revoked-over-alleged-link-to-terror-organization">stripped the group of its charitable tax status</a>. According to the CRA, ISNA had a “funding arrangement” with the Kashmiri Canadian Council/Kashmiri Relief Fund of Canada, a charity run by Jamaat-e-Islami, which is the largest Islamist group in South Asia.</p>
<p>Jamaat-e-Islami has been associated with terrorist funding before. In August 2006, the group’s main charity, the al-Khidmat Foundation, led a delegation to Damascus, Syria <a href="http://www.americansagainsthate.org/ICNA_Financing_Hamas.html">to hand $6 million rupees ($99,000 U.S.)</a> to the global head of Hamas, Khaled Meshaal, at Meshaal’s then-Syrian residence. The delegation delivered a “special message” from Jamaat-e-Islami’s then-Amir (President) Qazi Hussain Ahmad to the Hamas leader. Meshaal thanked them for the gift and said Hamas would continue to wage jihad (war) against Israel.</p>
<p>As well, Jamaat-e-Islami supports the overthrow of the Indian government through its militant wing, Hizbul Mujahideen, an outfit that has been involved in numerous terrorist attacks against Indian troops and civilians alike.</p>
<p>Hizbul Mujahideen became known globally, when reports surfaced showing that it <a href="http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/hizbul-mujahideen-owned-hideout-of-osama-in-pak-report/1/137083.html">held ownership of the Pakistani compound</a> where Osama bin Laden was hiding/living and where he later was found/killed. Yet, while Hizbul Mujahideen is considered a terrorist organization by the European Union and India, the U.S. government does not recognize it as such. Nor does the U.S. government recognize any of the other aforementioned groups as terrorist organizations.</p>
<p>And while ISNA has lost its tax status in Canada, the group has only been embraced by the White House. ISNA has boasted about its ability to arrange White House tours and brief White House staff, and highlights from one of ISNA’s conferences are discussed <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/07/07/highlights-islamic-society-north-america-s-48th-annual-convention">right on the White House website</a>.</p>
<p>It wasn’t always like this. Similar to its Canadian counterpart, the U.S. office of ISNA has been implicated in the financing of terrorism.</p>
<p>In 2007 and 2008, ISNA, along with a cadre of other Islamist groups and individuals, was <a href="http://www.nysun.com/national/islamic-groups-named-in-hamas-funding-case/55778/">named by the United States Justice Department</a> as a co-conspirator to two federal trials dealing with the financing of millions of dollars to Hamas. The defendants of the trials were the leaders of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) and HLF itself. In the end, each was found guilty of all charges.</p>
<p>There was good reason for ISNA to be named. For years, since the HLF charity was established in 1987 as the Occupied Land Fund (OLF), the terror group advertised its Plainfield, Indiana mailing address as the same one being used (to this day) by ISNA. ISNA’s main youth group, the Muslim Students Association (MSA), asked for donations to be sent to the address in OLF’s name.</p>
<p>Even now, ISNA places full color, full page ads in its magazine, <i>Islamic Horizons,</i> for Muslim charities associated with terrorism. <a href="http://issuu.com/isnacreative/docs/ih_nov-dec_13">This month’s issue includes ads for:</a></p>
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<li>Helping Hand, a partner organization to Jamaat-e-Islami’s al-Khidmat, at the time when the group traveled to Syria to give the $99,000 to the head of Hamas</li>
<li>Islamic Relief, a former financier of millions of dollars to al-Qaeda-related Chechen rebels and a charity that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2006/may/31/voluntarysector.israel">Israel has labeled a front for Hamas</a></li>
<li>International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), a former financier of a Palestinian Islamic Jihad front and a charity that had its offices raided by the FBI in a March 2002 terror probe</li>
<li>Mercy-USA, a group that has had a number of terror-related individuals serve as board members, including convicted terrorist Abdurahman Alamoudi, and the U.S. office of Mercy International, a charity implicated in the al-Qaeda-perpetrated 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania</li>
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<p>According to ISNA’s main website, the organization has two Vice Presidents, one for the U.S., Azhar Azeez, and one for Canada, Mohamed Bekkari. However, the site <a href="http://www.isna.net/board-of-directors.html">shows that it only has one President</a>, that being Mohamed Magid.</p>
<p>Magid has become dangerously close to the U.S. government, so much so that he has been appointed to a position administered by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), ironically as a member of a working group <a href="http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/hsac_cve_working_group_recommendations.pdf">dealing with “countering violent extremism.”</a></p>
<p>Placing a terror-associated Islamist, as is Magid, in such a position of power could have negative effects on both American national security and American foreign policy. We may not realize how much damage has already been done because of appointments like this.</p>
<p>Canada, for its part, has recognized that Magid’s organization is a threat to society. A sane policy would be for the U.S. to follow suit, as both ISNA Canada and ISNA USA suffer from the identical radical Islamic malady.</p>
<p>Indeed, they are one and the same.</p>
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		<title>Judge Declares Illiterate Muslim Deserves Citizenship Because He is Schizophrenic</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2013 14:27:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“He is incapable of advanced schooling and his career prospects are limited.” ]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com/2013/12/muhammad-is-incapable-of-advanced.html">Illiterate and schizophrenic</a>? <a href="http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/12/03/judge-reverses-decision-to-deny-schizophrenic-man-citizenship-after-he-failed-knowledge-test/">Mohammed truly has it a</a>ll.</p>
<blockquote><p>Muhammad Chaudhary came nowhere near passing his Canadian-citizenship knowledge test, scoring two out of 20 on the questions about Canada’s geography, history and political system. He was denied citizenship as a result.</p>
<p>But a Federal Court judge in Calgary has overturned that decision, citing a surprising reason: there is evidence his mental illness — schizophrenia — makes it all but impossible for him to retain such facts and figures.</p>
<p>The court has sent the case back to be decided by a different citizenship judge, keeping in mind opinions of the immigrant’s doctor about Mr. Chaudhary’s reasoning abilities.</p></blockquote>
<p>Is being mentally ill really a better qualifier for Canadian citizenship than illiteracy? Illiterate people seem less likely to go on killing sprees.</p>
<blockquote><p>Mr. Chaudhary arrived from Pakistan in 2007 and immediately became a permanent resident. Five years later, he appeared before a citizenship judge with his brother, who acted as his guardian.</p>
<p>A report from his psychiatrist, Calgary’s Dr. Clinton Hirst, stated that he had developed schizophrenia in 2007, along with related cognitive deficits that left him with diminished verbal comprehension, working memory and processing speed.</p></blockquote>
<p>He developed schizophrenia at the same time as he moved to Canada. That certainly is quite a coincidence that there is no need to be suspicious of.</p>
<blockquote><p>Dr. Hirst indicated that the condition would prevent Mr. Chaudhary from acquiring the kind of knowledge needed to pass the test. “He is incapable of advanced schooling and his career prospects are limited,” the physician added in a later letter to the court.</p></blockquote>
<p>So make him a citizen. Think of all the contributions that an illiterate schizophrenic incapable of being educated or holding a job can make to Canada.</p>
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		<title>Student Paper Editor Claims Mustaches are Racist</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Nov 2013 19:51:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA["Educate yourself on the issue, and think twice before growing a moustache."]]></description>
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<p>I&#8217;m not sure what the difference between identity politics and mental illness is anymore. <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/25/movember-declared-sexist-racist-transphobic-at-canadas-sorry-imitation-of-harvard/">I don&#8217;t think they do either</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>The health and education editor of the student newspaper at one of Canada’s most prestigious universities has advised the world that Movember — the month-long pledge by men to grow hair above the upper lip to support men’s health awareness —  is “sexist, racist, transphobic, and misinformed.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Let&#8217;s begin with transphobic. Which means it discriminates against women who have themselves mutilated so they can pretend to be men.</p>
<blockquote><p>Haddad’s complaints about Movember are many. To begin with, he says, the concept discriminates against transgender people by linking masculinity “to secondary male characteristics, including having a prostate” and the ability to grow facial hair.</p>
<p>“To be completely clear, you don’t have to be a man to have a prostate, and you don’t have to have a prostate to be a man,” Haddad proclaims.</p></blockquote>
<p>While women can&#8217;t grow a prostate (or be man), they can grow facial hair. And with the kinds of hormones being injected into the bodies of women who claim to be transgender men, they certainly do grow facial hair.</p>
<p>So Haddad is not only crazy. He&#8217;s also wrong.</p>
<blockquote><p>The English and cultural studies major argues that Movember “implies an archaic view of gender that implies that only a male/female gender binary exists, and that you aren’t really a man if you don’t necessarily identify with that binary.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Close encounters of the third kind? Is there a third non-binary sex we&#8217;re missing? Like Mowen? And can&#8217;t you be a third gender and still grow facial hair?</p>
<blockquote><p>He asks: “How are people who do not identify with that binary and have a prostate supposed to partake in this cause?”</p></blockquote>
<p>I don&#8217;t even&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>Haddad claims Movember is also racist because black males are “twice as likely to develop” prostate cancer than white males yet most people celebrating Movember are white.</p></blockquote>
<p>So mustaches are racist because black men are more likely to get prostate cancer.</p>
<blockquote><p>Finally, Haddad aggressively claims that “campaigns like Movember help perpetuate” micro-aggressions–which he defines as “interactions between people of different races, genders, sexualities, and cultures that represent small acts of non-physical violence.”</p></blockquote>
<p>I think this entire essay counts as a micro-aggression.</p>
<blockquote><p>“Do some basic research, educate yourself on the issue, and think twice before growing a moustache this, or any other, November,” Haddad implores.</p></blockquote>
<p>Because they&#8217;re racist. Just ask Billy Dee Williams.</p>
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		<title>Like Obama, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Admits to Cocaine Use</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Nov 2013 18:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 60 Minutes, Obama mentioned that he had considered using heroin]]></description>
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<p>Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has joined Barack Obama in the list of major political figures <a href="http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com/2013/11/rob-ford-yes-i-have-smoked-crack-cocaine.html">who have admitted to cocaine use</a>. While Rob Ford only admitted his cocaine use recently, Obama discussed his own cocaine abuse in his book Dreams From My Father.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I had learned not to care,&#8221; he wrote.  &#8220;I blew a few smoke rings, remembering those years.  Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it.  Not smack, though.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Despite admitting cocaine use in his book, he later<a href="http://www.mapinc.org/newsnorml/v03/n1786/a06.html"> attempted to avoid the question</a> when asked by a reporter.</p>
<blockquote><p>State Sen.  BARACK OBAMA, D-Chicago, who is running for U.S.  Senate, didn&#8217;t tell all when recently asked about any past use of illegal drugs.  I know that because I found out more information in a 1995 book by &#8211; guess who &#8211; Barack Obama.</p>
<p>Obama last week apologized for not telling me earlier about his past as portrayed in the book.  He said I had caught him off guard with the drug question and that, at the time, he had not wanted to overshadow his story of that day &#8211; his endorsement by the Illinois Federation of Teachers.</p></blockquote>
<p>On 60 Minutes,<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/24/world/americas/24iht-dems.3272493.html"> Obama mentioned that he had considere</a>d using heroin, but didn&#8217;t use it because he didn&#8217;t like the pusher who was selling it. Otherwise, he apparently would have used heroin.</p>
<p>Considering his occasional ambiguity of the subject, there is no way to be certain of when Obama stopped using drugs. His official exam does not mention a drug test, only mentions that he&#8217;s taking a nicotine patch of some sort.</p>
<p>In any case, it would appear that cocaine is becoming the new marijuana for politicians in their forties and fifties.</p>
<p>UK Prime Minister David Cameron was accused of cocaine use earlier in his life and <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4340328.stm">effectively conceded it with a</a> non-denial. Meanwhile the leader of the Canadian Liberal Party, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23802811">Justin Trudeau, has admitted to marijuana </a>use only three years ago.</p>
<p>Rob Ford&#8217;s situation is somewhat different since unlike most politicians he has admitted to using cocaine &#8220;on the job&#8221;, but it&#8217;s not entirely clear that this distinction even matters anymore.</p>
<p>Where exactly is the line supposed to be drawn when there are no longer any standards of values or character for politicians? If their adulterous affairs are their own private business and their past drug use is their own business, even though hard drugs are often addictive and permanently change the structure of the brain, why not let politicians smoke crack on the job?</p>
<p>Either we have standards or we don&#8217;t. Either politicians are supposed to reflect the morals of the people they represent or they need not have any morals at all. Attempting to have it both ways will never work.</p>
<p>Is the distinction here that crack cocaine is a ghetto drug, but if it were something more upscale that would be fine?</p>
<p>Rob Ford has admitted to using drugs. Unlike Justin Trudeau, he doesn&#8217;t seem to want to legalize them. Thank goodness for small favors.</p>
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